From The Press. THE two opinions, with regard to this ancient nation, which divide the Conservative party, may be we fancy, described by the two phrases we have placed at the head of this article. There are those who expect, and desire, that the Jews who reside in England should gradually become Englishmen; and there are those who do not expect, or wish, that they should ever be any thing else than Jews. In Tuesday's debate, the Marquis of Londonderry and the Bishop of Cashel seemed to represent these two classes. We will describe the two views somewhat more at length. appear The English nation is a mass compounded of various races. Some we have who to be of the blood and family of the Ancient Britons. Others bear unmistakeable marks of belonging to the Saxon race, and date their origin, doubtless, from the times of the Heptarchy. Many families boast of their Norman lineage, and are proud to think that they "came in with the conqueror." Others date from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when their forefathers were among the French refugees who landed on our shores. The accession of William III brought us some Dutch families, and a few Hanoverians came over with the Elector. All these different races are now merged into one nation, and all lay claim to one general title, "the people of England." Now, it is apparently, thought, by some friends of the Jews, that they too may follow the same course, and become, in a few generations, entirely fused into the general mass known as "the British nation." that that isolation will never cease; that Israel will never lose its national character, and that its last days will be its best days. On this point many passages of Scripture seem to be most clear and conclusive. Such as Isaiah, xi., 11, 12: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hameth, and from the islands of the sea. "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." "Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy one of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. "And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee. "Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. "For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy one of İsrael. "Whereas thou hast been forsaken and The second class, however, while they take an entirely opposite view, would not willingly admit that they fall at all behind the former class in regard and veneration for the Hebrew people. They think, indeed, as the Bishop of Cashel said, that they love and honor the Jews far more than some of their warmest political supporters. But they have derived certain views from Holy Scripture, of the future destiny of this ancient nation, which are altogether at variance with the idea of making them Members of Parliament, May-cies uttered before the coming of Christ, and ors, or even Churchwardens. As to "fusion," which is evidently expected and desired by many who advocate their admission to Parliament, the teaching of Holy Scripture seems wholly opposed to such an idea. Even Erskine could emphatically cite the isolation of the Jewish people, through eighteen centuries, as a triumphant proof of the Divine inspiration of the books of Moses. Yet some persons seem to expect, and to desire, that that Isolation may shortly cease. The class of which we are now speaking hold hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many Generations." And if it be said that these were prophe that in the Christian Church all these things have been figuratively fulfilled, the answer is plain. St. Paul, writing after the formation of the Christian Church, still alludes to the return of the Jews as a great event, still future, and still to be greatly desired. He says (Romans, xi., 11, 12, 15, 25, 26) : "I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid : but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. "Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." from that inheritance which is inalienably and forever their own. These views are naturally said to be romantic, by those who have not much entered into the subject. But, in truth, every thing connected with the history of this wonderful people is romantic. What is it but romantic to fall into company with a gentleman, and to know in a moment, by his countenance, that he is, beyond all doubt, the descendant of an old Eastern patriarch, who lived and died in Chaldea and in Canaan, some 3,800 years ago? The fact is, that all the above passages of Scripture, which are read to us once or twice in each year in the lessons of our Church, are full of wondrous meaning—unless, indeed, we prefer to assert that they have no meaning at all. Thus harmonizing Isaiah and St. Paul, those who adopt this view arrive at the distinct conclusion, that a great and glorious destiny remains for Israel in their own land. And, so believing, it is natural that they should not favor any plan, which, by rooting However, we have here described the two them in the English soil, and conforming leading ideas which at present divide Conthem to English habits and English institu- servatives on this question, and which it tion, would tend to bind them to this "land ought to be every good man's wish to reduce, of their exile," and to divert their thoughts as soon as possible, into harmony and union. LOUIS PHILIPPE DESCRIBED BY A REPUB- most unquestionable evidence-in 1742. The LICAN.-Louis Philippe was a prince gifted with deceased, who was a tenant on the estate of the many good qualities. His domestic virtues were Earl of Bessborough, was born on the townland such as to command respect. He was by no on which he died. He was a man simple in his means wanting in enlightened perceptions. Both habits, moderate in his diet, and exceedingly from a disposition naturally merciful, and from temperate. His custom was, from an early pea philosophical notion of the value of human riod of his life, to bathe his head in cold water life, he was so averse from shedding blood, that every morning throughout the year. His memhis Ministers were sure to meet with an almost ory was strong and tenacious, and his narrative desperate resistance on his part whenever they of the many events that occurred within his reasked him to affix his signature to a sentence of collection during a period of a century was clear, death. Upon the whole he was a man of re- precise, and accurate. When his great age bemarkably sober character. Nor did liberty un-came known, about six years since, and a photoder his reign receive any mortal wound. In graphic likeness of him taken, a copy of which times of foreign and internal difficulties he suc- was placed in the hands of her Majesty the ceeded in warding off imminent dangers, and Queen by his landlord, an event which appeared the middle classes were indebted to him for the to have contributed to his gratification, he was repose they so dearly prized. Still, when the visited by numerous parties from all parts of the hour of his doom struck, no wish was expressed country. This venerable man enjoyed health for his crown's preservation; no helping hand up to a late period, and when he complained, it was held out to him; the moneyed classes kept was only of weakness. On the day before his aloof; the soldiers either refused to fight or death he displayed no symptoms of early dissofought reluctantly; for the first time the shop-lution, and even on the day he died he sat up in keepers seemed to have forgotten that revolutions are bad for trade; the most active part of the National Guard actually countenanced the insurrection; the old King, looking around him, and seeing nothing but a dreary solitude, became disheartened, and a Government which had lasted no less than seventeen years was overthrown by a touch.-Historical Revelations, by Louis Blanc. MR. JAMES NOLAN, of Knockindrane, county of Carlow, died last week at the extraordinary age of 116 years, being born-according to the bed and conversed cheerfully with his family and neighbors; but in a few hours afterwards he died calmly, almost without a struggle.-Examiner, 8 May. 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THE Journal of Madam Knight has been on the subject of this poem, and are glad to be remembered with much interest, since we read the original edition, given to the world by our honored friend, the late Theodore Dwight, of New York. Having been for years desirous of reprinting it, as a unique specimen of the voyages and travels, life and manners of that early time, a fortunate concurrence of thought with our careful townsman gives the advantage of the only copy we have seen for many years, and of the notes by which he has illustrated it. The whole work, of seventy pages in the original, is contained in this number. The subject of Hymns and Hymn Writers has already been largely and variously treated in The Living Age. The writer in the Oxford Essays contributes so much learning and ability in this article, that we are glad to avail ourselves of his contribution, though we are sorry to say he is wanting in true sympathy with his subject; as is proved by his considering Toplady's "Rock of Ages cleft for me," as the offspring of religious depression,-and by his calling Cowper's "Oh for a closer walk with God!"the expressions of despondency. This number completes the First Volume of the Third and Enlarged Series. A reference to its Table of Contents will show the great variety and importance of this quarterly issue. There is nothing which can be compared to it, in the whole range of Periodical Literature. In the large double pages of this Volume are included about Two Thousand pages of the Original Journals. 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It ap- upon each of our readers to do what he can by peared there as original—and we notice that The adding names to the list, to enable us to comSaturday Review charges the Journal with plete still further, a work for which our labor wholesale and unacknowledged appropriation of and expense shall only be limited by our ability. its reviews. We have received several letters JOURNAL OF MADAM KNIGHT. IN the "Museum of Foreign Literature and Science," for January, 1826, an article was printed from Blackwood's Magazine entitled Travelling in America," suggested by a volume published at New York the previous year." 66 The Museum was then published in Philadelphia by the present senior and veteran editor of the "Living Age," to whom the literature of our country has been largely indebted for more than thirty years and whose literary banquets we hope to find spread before us for many years to come. Numerous extracts were made in Blackwood from Madam Knight's Journal with commendatory remarks upon the same. This was a private journal kept on her journey, performed on horseback, from Boston to New York, in the 1704. year It is about fifteen years since we first read the article above referred to, and our curiosity was thus strongly awakened to peruse the entire Journal. After procuring a copy, our interest was still further excited to trace Madam Knight's line of travel from hence to New York, to identify the localities where she tarried at the end of each day's ride, to learn of the persons she mentions, and the places she passed through,† and, more especially, to answer the question;-Who was Madam Knight? At that time we made some examination of our Probate and other records in Boston but found nothing that we were certain referred to the heroine of this journey; and not until the publication, in 1852, by Miss F. M. Caulkins, of her history of New London, in which place Madam Knight and her daughter were buried, did there seem to be any certain clue by which to identify her here. Since that publication we have from time to time jotted down memoranda of traces of Madam Knight in Boston. Although on first reading her journal it had the air of romance, and, apparently, like Sir Walter Scott's description of the wonderful volume "The Journals of Madam Knight and Rev. Mr. Buckingham from the Original Manuscripts written in the year 1704 and 1710. New York: Wilder and Campbell, 1825." 12mo p. 129. † Mr. Updike in his history of the Narragansett church (p. 10), identifies the spot where Haven's tavern stood and where Madam Knight tarried the second night of her journey as being the site of the present residence of Wm. P. Maxwell Esq., near the "Devil's Foot" rock in North Kingstown, R.I. This is the only instance we have met with in print of any attention being given to the locality of any of the places where she stopped during her journey. When we first saw this journal it was stated quite confidently that it was a fiction, written by the late Samuel L. Knapp. of Michael of Belwearie in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," "It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a Knight," yet, we are now enabled from our Boston records, in connection with those of New London, Norwich, and New Haven, to state that this lady was no fictitious Knight. She was a native of Boston. Her journey to New York is veritable history, and, however romantic, is perfectly true. "There is no tale so wild as truth on earth." Madam Knight was probably almost the only woman who, at so early a date, made such a journey in this country, and undoubtedly her journal gives the most interesting account of the kind, at that period, that has been rescued from the everwasting flood of time. Only about one third of the time since the landing of the Pilgrims had expired, when this journey was made. It was commenced the very year of the death of Peregrine White, the first child born after their arrival, the year of the publication of the first newspaper in America, about the time of the establishment of the first daily paper in London, five years before the birth of Dr. Johnson, one year before the birth of Dr. Franklin, and twenty-seven years before the birth of Washington. Could we behold this lady as she actually appeared about three o'clock P.M. Oct. 2, 1704, arrayed in the style of the day, mounted on her charger, bidding adieu to her friends, starting, with her kinsman, Capt. Robert Luist, as her guide, and wending her way over Boston neck, no antique scene could be of more amusing curiosity and interest. On her journey she was a guest of some of the principal personages of that day. She gives graphic descriptions of the manners and customs of all classes, and poetic glimpses of her travels, through forests, fording of rivers, and climbing of hills by night and by day. Mr. Littell who had also taken an interest in Madam Knight's Journal, knowing that expressed a desire to reprint the work in the we had a copy of the original edition,† has Living Age, with such prefatory remarks as we might choose to make. We have accordingly here hastily thrown together the result of our investigations in relation to her history and that of her journal. Madam Knight was the daughter of lished April 24, 1704. years ago with a few prefatory remarks by Rev. |